Diesel: "I have dangerous bones in my body."

Diesel: "I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut."

Diesel: "A person in my position has to restrain himself."

Diesel: "I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures."

Diesel: "I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification."

Diesel: "Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic."

Diesel: "I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper."

Diesel: "The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else."

Diesel: "With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug."

Diesel: "I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie."

Diesel: "I'm the most ambitious person you ever met."

Diesel: "I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have."

Diesel: "My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core."

Diesel: "You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have."

Diesel: "It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams."

Diesel: "I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could."

Diesel: "You break her heart, I'll break your neck."

Diesel: "If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure."

Diesel: "We all deal with being unfairly judged."

Diesel: "A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity."

Diesel: "Career diversification ain't a bad thing."

Diesel: "My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film."

Diesel: "I look formidable."